The Varette Building (130 Albert Street)

The Varette Building (130 Albert Street)

Overview

Between Albert Street and Slater Street, and across from the World Exchange Plaza, the Varette Building boasts one of the most accessible locations for Ottawa’s professional, financial and government businesses’.

The building features two convenient main entrances that open on to the city’s major transit arteries, Albert and Slater Street and future LRT. Tenants can enjoy the convenience of two boardrooms for executive meetings, furnished mini-offices to meet short-term office rental requirements, as well as a printing shop and convenience store located on the ground floor. Take a break on our beautiful outdoor courtyard located on Slater Street.

Over this past decade Metcalfe Realty Company Limited has endeavored to maintain a high standard of energy efficiency and environmentally friendly practices in its buildings. The building underwent a full lighting replacement, a “green” cleaning program was implemented and an energy retrofit was undertaken with the installation of digital automated controls for the building HVAC.

Out Tenants benefit from on-site property management and four levels of secure and private parking.

Suite B003, 130 Albert Street 183 sq. ft.

Specifications

Physical Properties

Total rentable area: 207,656

Number of floors: 20 floors plus 1 basement level

Building Renovations: Building façade revitalization, and corridor renovations 2015.
Energy conservation retrofit to building systems, Energy saving lighting retrofit, water conservation retrofit, and Mechanical retrofit with new cab.

Elevators/Passenger: 5 high speed gearless elevators with computerized controls monitor traffic usage and reduce wait times.
Separate shuttle elevator from the 19th floor to the 20th and one shuttle elevator to garage from ground floor from 4–B level.

Freight elevator: One of the elevators is oversized in height to double as a freight elevator when required.

Amenities: Boardroom rental available for tenants. On the major transit arteries for easy access from all parts of the City. Close to Parliament Hill, the Courthouse, the Central Business district, Shopping, Dining, the Ottawa Convention Center and major hotels. Services available in the Building include a Men’s Clothing store and Tailor Shop, Dry cleaning, Print Shop, Convenience Store, Dentist, Physiotherapist, Massage Therapist, Travel Agency and Employment Agency. On-site storage lockers are available for lease to tenants and short term office rentals (mini offices) are available in the B-1 Level.

Video surveillance: At all points of entry to the Building including the garage.

Janitorial

Daily cleaning: Daily, full service “green” cleaning for all tenancies.

General

Business Hours: Monday – Friday from 08H00 to 18H00

Environment

Recycling: paper, plastics, glass, cans, cardboard and newsprint.

Building greening: To reduce the carbon footprint of the building and to provide a healthier work environment for the tenants the Building was converted to “green” cleaning in 2008, digitally controlled automated building systems were installed, a full lighting replacement for energy efficiency and a water conservation retrofit.

Property Management

On site Building Manager and Day Engineer.

As the Property Management office for Metcalfe Realty Company Limited is located in this building, tenants enjoy convenient first class property management and tenant care.

A computerized Tenant Maintenance Request System provides for early response and close follow up for all tenant maintenance requests and other enquiries.

Typical Floor Plan

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Known by the Company We Keep ®

Meeting the growing needs of one of Canada's major real estate markets has been a priority with Metcalfe Realty Company Limited since 1949. An expansive range of services and years of solid experience in property management and development have earned the company an enviable reputation as an industry leader in the nation's capital. Since developing Ottawa's first modern office tower, the Metcalfe Building, in 1949, the company has expanded its corporate holdings to more than 20 diverse properties that total over 2 million square feet. [Learn more]